Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-12-04
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KELLY sPouS HIS OWE CANE.


no NKAnEa 10 TIE COUNCILMAN
KELLY sRous HIS OWE GAME.
Mr.. Allen q. Mason, Of the Bennett
Street Railway Company, and MessFs.
7. L. Nixon and l.. Il. Post, Of the Nixon
company, came into the council room
yesterday at An early hour and patient
II waited for the routine business 70 be
disposed Of. u was fully four O'Clock
before the Bennett ordinance-the drst
one 70 come up-was reached.
Clark Meade read the ordinance en-
tire, as required BY the rules ct the
council, though exery man, woman aud
child IN Tacoma can almost repeat 10 by
heart. The ehampion Of the Nixon
ordinance, Mr. Kelly. whose seat is
directly ID front Of the clerks desk,
was the only person 10 the room seem
inQiy Interested IN lie reading. Of the
conclusion Of which Mr.. Bacon moved
Il be engrossed and placed upon its
Anal passage. Tha roll call showed
four members voting for the ordinance
and foUr against Il, as follows: hcgars.
Bacon, Miller, HoFsefali and Hought0n.
IN favor, and Kelly, Collins, Liliis and
ZinFam opposed. AZ the conclusion Of
the roll call Mayor ToWne leaned back
Ia his chair with an undecided jerk,
bat soon recovered sufficiently 10 an
nounoe, "a majority Of the members
not having votsd for she ordinance. IL
IL not passed"
AZ t6is juncture Mr.. Mason retired
leaving Meaara. Post and Nixon in the
Geld. Their ordinance having been
read the third time e. the previous
meeting, and action postponed TO this,
vas called up under Che bead Of unfln-
ished business iusi before the adi0arn-
ment Of the counoil. II the failure Of
the Bennett franchise TO pass was O
surprise 10 Mr.. Mason, the action teken
By the council on the Nixon ordinances
was q much greater one, 10 him, 90 least.
&c be fully oxpected Il to pass. ID is
conceded By Mr.. Posi- that bat for Q
fatal error made By Mr.. Kelley, the or
dinanee would have passed. Mr.. Kel-
ley, thinking that the four members
who voted for BonnettAa would vote
against Nixon's moved that action on
The ordinance be again postponed to the
next meeting which prevailed. Mr.
Houahton, however, one OF the opposi-
ton, had lost slepped out Of the room,
and had Q ooufegenee with City Attorney
Carroll, and 10 him expressed his inten-
sion Of voting for the ordinance, bat on
returning 70 the room Just at the mo
mani Mr.. Kelley's motion was put, be
easily readiasted bis ideas 10 conform
TO ik and thereby escape from q dis
agreeable predioamsnt. In q few re-
marks Mr.. HouQhten explained his POSI-
Hon about - follows: He favored the
Bennett ordinance for the reason that
he axpeofed that oouauRnv wouid cut Ia
better railway, and when that vas de-
feafsd be feared 10 vote for the Nixon
ordinance least there weuld be clash
between tie Two companies, aud each
endeaRoE 10 occupy ths a1reets. Il mast
be remembered thai Nelson Bennett and
his associates we're granted Q franchise
On conditions thai u IL questioned
vhelheg they fulfilled. bat thsy threaten
20 20 ahead under q II the Nixon Gem
pany are granted franchise.
From Q close business friend OF Ma.
sonas q vas learned THAI be viii bnild 9
railroad undag the former franchise.
II Eixdn 10 succeaSfnl q clash between
NE too viii mosl probably follow TO-
days aeaien Of the council
REAL KSTAxn SALE.-Allsn @. Mason,
late last evening. closed 3 trade With
Oaptsin Q. Z Clancy for the laiieEis
| atty feet corner ca A and Tenth streets
NE pEice paid being tn thousand Dol
lars Clancy has boaehf four lots for q
Fesidence neEx the ssulinaTy.